A closer look at the Food Safety Bill...

     A bill currently before this lame duck session of Congress is called the Food Safety Modernization Act. It seems there is another crisis that absolutely must be addressed immediately. The Senate has closed debate, and the bill is awaiting a vote in that chamber.
     Once again we are looking at a one-size-fits-all, top down effort to centrally manage our lives... this time it involves expanded FDA regulations to control the food supply and what we should be feeding our kids. Small farmers and proponents for local food growers are worried. Read here.
     The price of food is already predicted to rise due to inflation. Locally grown food could help to keep costs down. However, the extra layer of regulation will necessarily drive up costs for local growers, too.
     As with any new piece of legislation that I think could be counterproductive to liberty and our economy, I have begun to research who supports the legislation. This food bill is being pushed by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. See who they fund. It tells me all I need to know. Remember the fruit of the poisonous tree?
     We already know that the so-called Stimulus was written by the Tides Foundation's Apollo Alliance, and the so-called Healthcare Reform Law took its lead from the book, The Progressive Agenda for Structural Change, and is admitted to be redistribution of the wealth.
     Once you start looking into where these sweeping policies come from, you soon realize where they are taking us.